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Midi de PaTHs | Physico-chemical analysis of heritage objects: examples of non-invasive approaches to enamelled fibulae and ancient coins

Speakers: Lucas Baseil and Nicolas Gros (Department of Physics, UNamur)

Midi de PaTHs | From images to texts: intellectual networks between publishing and cinema in Italy (1955-1983)

Speaker: Marco De Cristofaro (History, HiSI)

Hannah Ryley (University of Oxford)

Reusing medieval English manuscripts

International Conference - Memory(ies) and Political Competition in the Roman World (3rd century BC - 4th century AD)

This symposium aims to study the use of memory and its specific dynamics in the context of political competition, in various spheres and covering a broad chronological framework, from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD, with the aim of encouraging dialogue between respective specialists.

πDay 2026

To mark Pi Day, UNamur invites 7th and 8th grade students to celebrate one of the world's most famous mathematical constants with a morning of activities.

Francqui Chair 2025-2026 in the Faculty of Science | Repairing our relationship with Nature to transform our societies

Lesson 3 | The failure of nature conservation - Reflections on the (in)effectiveness of conservation and restoration strategiesSpeaker: Sander Jacobs, Senior Researcher at INBO (Institute for Nature and Forest), Nature & Society Research Group, Coordinator of the Urban Nature Researc

The warlike desires of modernity

As part of its seminar series, the Arcadie Center at the ESPHIN Research Institute is pleased to welcome Déborah V. Brosteaux for a session dedicated to her book Les désirs guerriers de la modernité (The Warrior Desires of Modernity), Seuil, 2025.

Women in Science 2026 | 6th edition

This annual event aims to promote women's and girls' access to science and technology and their full and equal participation.

Laetitia Ciccolini (Sorbonne University)

Augustine's Enchiridion through its summaries: circulation, reception, uses

Francqui Chair 2025-2026 in the Faculty of Science | Repairing our relationship with Nature to transform our societies

Lesson 2 | A toxic relationship between humans and nature?

Fernand Peloux (CNRS/University of Toulouse)

Fernand Peloux, Eulalie, Juste and Rufine. Writing, rewriting and transmission of the Passions of saints from ancient Hispania.

Founding, building, praying. The origins of Cistercian abbeys in the Southern Netherlands (13th century)

Organized on the site of the former Notre-Dame du Vivier abbey, this colloquium aims to identify the reasons for the success of mulieres religiosae before 1250, the concrete circumstances in which foundations and affiliations took place, and the ways in which communities were institution

Hollywood vs Trump 2.0: The empire strikes back?

Conference by Dork Zabunyan (Université Paris VIII), organized by the Arcadie Center of the ESPHIN Institute and the Philosophy Department.

Zones: land, gender and science fiction

Seminar of the Arcadie Center of the ESPHIN Institute around the work of Jeanne Etelain (Université Paris Nanterre - MO.CO. ESBA)

Nicolas Michel (FNRS/Université de Namur)

Medieval intertextuality through the lens of the dictamen: reflections on mechanisms of replacement in the late Middle Ages (12th-15th centuries).